Over the far distance, no more pteranodon was seen. Only the ground monsters and beasts. By the looks of it, it looked like various monsters were swarming at the village.
He hit a nail on the head, blunt as always. My success depended on how quickly I moved. I drank the chimera dry until it was left out. With the horde still active, this would be a feast of mine. Right on schedule, Plasma came into view.
"Orcs really do pop up everywhere around here." I said
"Well, they have a lot of vitality, they breed like rabbits, and they mature quickly. They'll even attack humans to breed. There's usually something like twenty newborn orcs in a litter, and they eat through their mother's stomach to get free. When the mother's a human, the orc fetuses mature more rapidly as well."
Plasma's words made me queasier than the jerky
"Plasma, I didn't need to know all of that." I said disturbingly
"Hrmph. And after all the trouble I go through to educate you."
I'd known human meat was especially delicious to monsters, but I had not known some species could use humans as a procreation. Truthfully, I'd been happier in my ignorance. On top of that horrifying information, it was gruesome to imagine the very high orcs I slew daily born in a bloodbath. The knowledge slowed my movements as the orc squadron approached, readying for battle.
After that, Elias, who is in front of me, called out to me.
"Eirene, come here. I want to show you something."
"Big Brother, in the middle of a fight? Seriously?"
"Come here quickly, I have cool things to show you."
I approached my brother, seeing the glare that I know of. He asked me profusely…
"What's with the glare? Brother?"
"Eirene, check this out!"
Then, Elias activated his shadow vault ability, it generated a small hole in thin air, it was a voidless hole that he stored his things from. He pulled something for afar, something extraordinary. Then, he yanks it apart and closes the vault completely. I was shocked to discover that it was a weapon.
"Eirene, I have a gift for you, this is one of my weapons in my shadow vault. Care to try it out."
Elias gave me what appears to be a rocket launcher. It is large, heavy and has a medium-sized trigger, Elias pointed out and said that it was an artifact from ancient times. I didn't know he acquired this weapon somehow. It looks mysterious, or more of a decoration than a weapon.
Elias put a smile on my face and began lecturing me how to use it. It was simple.
"Eirene, This is one of my artifacts that I hold possession of. Death Chant Launcher. It can be powered using your magical affinity that was in your body. Since you have blood manipulation, you can use this weapon with your own blood."
As I got hold of one of Elias's weapons I immediately used Inspect to view its current state.
Death Chant Launcher
Durability: 4000/4000
Damage: 100
Attributes: Magic Synergy, Explosion,
Magic Synergy- using your magical affinity to power the weapon.
Explosion- middle explode on impact, dealing area-of-effect damage in a meter radius.
Well, this is indeed a rocket launcher. Instead, it fuels the use of my magical affinity, which I do have, meaning that I can empower this weapon with the use of my blood.
It is rare that my brother was supposed to be nice. The two ladies were already jealous, because through their perspective, lending out Elias's weapons in the shadow vault is considered a jackpot. Knowing that I was the first to do so. Despite that, I'm his little sister.
But there was no time to appraise, the hordes of monsters will be approaching the village at an impending rate. A few minutes or so, they will breach the walls soon after.
For this fight, I was positioned behind Elias, he'd lent her his rocket launcher. Death Chant Launcher. To my right was Catherine. To Catherine's left was Alta, who was still enamored by the ring Elias had given to him. And last was Patricia, who was positioned on the right side. Holding her majestic rapier in his scabbard.
The army hadn't slowed at all when Elias had shot down the pteranodons, and it was closing rapidly. Four people stood against an onslaught of five thousand, it was so ludicrous that it didn't seem real.
I looked up at Catherine. She looked at me and nodded. I then turned to Patricia. She nodded in confidence. While the others were focused on the horde of monsters that seemed to forget about our coordination.
A faint smile played on my lips as I stared at the oncoming horde. I then casually spoke words that marked the beginning of a grand slaughter.
"Let's get to it, then."
As I signaled to attack. Elias and I raised our artifacts straight to the monster. While Alta and Catherine were ready to chant their magic spells. And lastly, Patricia was on the other side of the dark walls, readying for the incoming monsters that will get too close from the walls.
Without hesitation, I pulled the trigger as fast as its mechanisms would allow, it activated in an instant. Because of the magical affinity attributes. The blood that was from my body suddenly flowed into the weapon, charging it into the process.
In an instant, it releases a blood missile that came from the barrel. Each missile impacted with an explosion dozens of meters wide, obliterating anything in its vicinity. Those in the center of the blast were blown to smithereens instantly, while those unlucky enough to only catch the shockwave had their bone shattered and their organs crushed, leaving them writhing in pain. Those behind them trampled the wounded to death in their mindless rush forward.
Once I run out of missiles, I will generally activate it once again with the use of my blood flow. Since my mana converts into blood, I can generate nearly a hundred blood missiles until my mana is depleted. And the good news is that, similar to my blood bow, blood missiles generated out of thin air due to the weapon's support.
"Damn, this launcher is amazing!"
The blood missiles fired from this one worked like a napalm, exploding over the monsters heads and spraying blood over the hapless beasts. Hellfire rained down on these monsters, searing them until only ashes remained. And as the screaming monsters flailed about in the moments before their death, they spread their flames to their neighbors, creating a chain reaction.
The monsters in my area had one of two choices… be blown to pieces or burned to ash.
In front of me lies my big brother, he is holding one of his signature weapons. The sniper rifle. It excels its marksmanship to the limit, one sniper bullet can kill at least ten monsters in a single line. Because of its piercing capabilities, he can eliminate monsters even in one singular sniper bullet.
Innumerable red streaks dyed the sky crimson, each one heralding a death sentence for one of its monsters. Each lance of bullet pulverized another monster, regardless of its strength, race or abilities. Without even an opportunity to resist, its army was quickly reduced to a mountain of corpses. Elias's guns packed such a huge punch that it pierced through enemy lines, killing dozens.
The pierced monsters that Elias made were hit so hard that they ignored the laws of motion. Instead of being blown back, they just exploded into chunks of flesh. The monsters fled wildly in every direction, scrambling to get out of the line of fire. Even though they were hypnotized, they still retained their survival instincts until now.
The barrage was so fierce that Elias was more like a mobile fortress than a person, and none of the monsters could even get close. They died by hundreds, leaving behind heaping mountains of dismembered flesh from which rivers of blood flowed.
To my left. Alta was wreaking havoc as well. From his hands he emitted black beans of light so hot they scorched the air they passed through. It was the same breath he'd fired on Elias in his chimera form. It seemed he could use it in human form as well. Flames powerful enough to test even Elias's best defenses ripped through the army, burning straight through rows of enemies.
Alta gradually swept his arms from side to side, mowing down large swathes of monsters with her black barrage. When it finally stopped, the only things that remained were deep gouges cut into the land.
However, that single attack had drained his mana considerably. Alta tottered back and forth, his shoulders heaving. But with a single kiss of Elias's ring, his reserves were replenished, and he straightened up once more.
He'd pulled mana out of the ring Elias had given him. With a majority of her section already wiped out, Alta decided to forge the breath and stuck to spells that consumed relatively less mana.
"Rise up, O furious gale, imbued with the crimson inferno itself … Activate, Fire Tornado!"
In order to keep his mana consumption even lower, he went out of his way to say the chant. A fiery whirlwind appeared in front of him.
It was dozens of meters wide, and as it advanced it pulled nearby monsters into its whirling tempest. One after another, monsters were pulled into the rotating inferno of death. They were only freed after they were reduced to ashes in the crimson furnace, and thousands of monsters worth of ashes sprinkled to the ground like gray snow. Alta didn't show up until the ground was blanketed in soot.
To my right, Catherine's performance was gruesome. When Elias and the others had started, Catherine had still had her eyes closed. Sensing that the right wing is safe, the monsters had all crowded in that direction to begin their assault. They were packed so close together that it was impending their charge. Finally, when they'd closed the distance to within half a mile, she opened her eyes.
She muttered a single word. Despite her voice barely over a whisper, it reverberated across the battlefield.
"Black Hole."
That was the trigger for her spell. A spell that defies the laws of physics itself. A spell that incorporated the gravity magic she had inherited from his human skill, powerful enough to influence the laws of the universe.
It was such a difficult spell to master that even Catherine, an orphan gifted with godlike talent in all areas of magic, needed time to build up the mana to cast it.
A sphere of darkness appeared above the monsters, similar to the one she'd summoned when fighting with Alta. However, unlike that sphere, this one started morphing. It stretched and stretched until it surrounded a section of the monster army on all sides. Then, once it had blocked out the sunlight and trapped the monsters, it fell.
The simplest way to explain what happened next was the monsters, and the ground they were standing on, just vanished. To the people of Rebelbub Village, who were watching the battle from the safety of the city, that was certainly what it looked like.
What had actually happened wasn't much more complicated than that. The pitch black sphere had fallen atop the monsters, sucking them under the immense force of the spell. Hence the name, Black Hole.
Without even a chance to comprehend what had happened, the army of monsters had been sucked out like a vacuum cleaner. All that remained was a vast space of emptiness.
In a single stroke, Catherine had slaughtered one thousand monsters. Those unlucky enough to have been caught on the edge of the dome had their bodies bisected, entrails and organs spilling from the remaining half of their bodies.
Because of the sphere's sudden appearance, the monsters charging in from behind didn't have the time to maneuver, and fell in rank after rank. The charge didn't halt immediately, and monsters continued following in for a good few seconds after that. Within seconds the sphere had filled, leading to their demise.
The air was thick with the metallic, cloying scent of monster blood. The wind carried it over the town, the air reeked with a rotten smell, causing a number of people to start throwing up.
But still, they couldn't take their eyes from the overwhelming might Elias and his party displayed. Cheers of triumph rang across the town.
At first they'd been pumped to help him defend the town, but they soon realized they were just like the villagers, simply being protected. And by the same man who they'd called for being an "anti-hero". There were a lot of complicated bottles up there.
Around that time, the horde of monsters suddenly plummeted its population exponentially. Once a huge army of monsters became the size of a town's population.